A Stitch in Time

Every so often I spend some of my down-time browsing for "cross stitch" in the vintage category on etsy. Here are some of my most recent favorites (click the image to be re-directed to the treasury so you can check out the individual items)...

Stitchy

Every so often, I like to search etsy's Vintage category for "cross stitch".

Click on the photo below to go check out the treasury I just made, full of lovely x's.

Cross Stitch

After a night full of thunder and lightning, I felt this morning like my brain needed a re-set. I sat down without a clear plan of what I wanted to write about today. When the writer's block didn't evaporate, I headed over to etsy for some inspiration. Its been a long time since I browsed just for the fun of it... I typed in the words "cross stitch" and selected the "vintage" category. Lo and behold, I found 195 pages worth of listings!

Antique linens, marked true to the fashion of the time...

Lovely old samplers...

Vintage table cloths...

Even printed mattress covers...

And inserts in leather portfolios...

Pre-printed kits hailing from yesteryear...

Lithographed tins...

Vintage kitchen samplers...

Victorian perforated paper tokens...

Even a vintage Saks Fifth Avenue shirt printed with a cross stitch pattern... and for only $10... I'd be buying this one if I was a size small... anyone?

By the time I got to page 30, my eyes had started to cross, and I decided I had better go find another way to re-set my brain... Perhaps some weed pulling will do the trick.

Nah.

By the way, click on each picture to be re-directed to its listing on etsy, and tell me if I helped you find a new treasure! Happy shopping...

I'd Rather Be...

I made a few more etsy treasuries this week.

I love choosing and arranging other peoples' artwork.

Feels a little like covering my screen with decoupage.

You really ought to give it a try sometime.

Just Because

Just a few things that struck my fancy on a gloomy stuffed-up-head kind of a day.

A Little Weathered

Delightful

Turquoisey

A treasury dedicated to my favorite family of blue...

The Things We Hold Onto

A "just because" treasury of some things that struck my fancy last evening.

Life is Beautiful

Happy, Happy, Yellow

Remember Me at Twilight Hour

After a bit of a hiatus from Treasury-making, I found myself elbow deep in lovely items in shades of blue last evening, and made this...

Click the image to be taken directly to my treasury, and explore the featured shops.

Things That Make Me Smile

Would Someone Please Turn Off the Faucet?

Pushing Back

I did something this week that I have rarely done in my life.

I bought flowers for myself.

Daffodils.

They are sitting on my kitchen windowsill so that they are the first thing I see, distracting me from the continual cycle of rain-snow-rain-snow-rain-snow that has turned my landscape into a gloomy mess of perpetually melting and sagging snow and mud.

I also bought strawberries. Not-organic, out-of-season, overgrown and barely-sweet strawberries. Yet they somehow still tasted good.

I am trying to push back Winter with all my might.

Someone else in this house has Spring Fever...


And here is another of my treasuries, which nicely fits the theme of this post. Its called "Craving Curry and Blue Skies"...

Gone to the Dogs

In case you are now hopelessly lost in a dog-mood:

Stitch & Lucky

Two new(ish) treasuries that I have made for your window-shopping pleasure...

Sweet Like Honey

Making etsy treasuries is totally addictive... its like being a Museum Curator, Store Window Designer, and Personal Shopper all rolled into one. Too bad I don't get paid for my services! Here is my most recent...

Sweet Like Honey

And a few others:

How Do I Love Thee?

My Kind of Valentine

Yo

Now that I finally figured out how to take a screen capture, I'll be sharing all of my treasury adventures with you in the future.